Vegetarian Star

Joss Stone is normally a healthy vegetarian, but admits she sometimes packs on a few extra pounds here and there.

Blame it on the non-vegan food on tour.

“In Europe, all they want to give you is bread and cheese, bread and cheese, bread and cheese” Stone said.

“Thank God I can sing [for a living] because it really doesn’t matter how thin I am,” Joss explained to US publication Shape magazine. “It’s irrelevant! That’s what I think when I feel that I’ve put on weight. I quickly remind myself, I’m not a model. That’s not important.”

Although she never looks less than gorgeous, it is important that Stone realize there are plenty of healthy alternatives to cheese. Not only is the product full of heart un-healthy items like cholesterol and saturated fat, it has been linked to weight gain in some studies.

Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine says, “The obesity epidemic is not caused by inactivity, bread, rice, gluttony, weak will, or a bad childhood. It is caused by a tsunami of unhealthful foods, and one of the worst, perhaps surprisingly, is cheese. Typical cheeses are about 70 percent fat, and every last fat gram packs nine calories that no one needs. Most of that fat is saturated (“bad”) fat—the kind that increases cholesterol levels and puts us at risk for diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and other diseases. A 2-ounce cheese serving also packs 350 milligrams of sodium and, ounce for ounce, as much cholesterol as a heart-stopping steak.”

Go easy on the cheese, Joss. Your fans want more heart-stopping tunes and not some disease like high cholesterol or obesity from something equivalent to a heart-stopping steak.

Photo: Benoit Derrier/Creative Commons

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